At the beginning of September two bee hives have been installed at the parking of FASoS. The hives are installed and being taken care of by Xander Lebesque who, besides his professional job at the ICT-servicecentre, keeps bees as a hobby.

Bees are important for the environment for many reasons. Many plants simply need bees to be pollinated. By placing the bee hives we hope that we can contribute a tiny bit to the biodiversity at FASoS and around.

To contribute to reducing the amount of plastic waste, FASoS decided to not provide plastic cups anymore at the Douwe Egberts coffeemachines in the buildings.

Please use your own mug or get a UM-cup at Bandito (deposit of €1). The UM plastic cups can be used and washed up to 500 times and at the end of their useful life, they can be recycled with the plastic waste.

This measure will be implemented before the start of the academic year.

This summer, maintenance works will take place around the FASoS buildings. The works are expected to last over the summer and will cause some noise nuisance. For an overview of the works to be carried out, please read below.

The next UM Kidzcollege will take place at FASoS in the Turnzaal on Wednesday 15 May. Part of the programme will consist in letting the children see from up close how an ambulance works and what the vehicle looks like from the inside. Two ambulances will be parked behind the Turnzaal in the morning and will shortly demonstrate the use of their siren.

On 1 September, Prof. Joep Leerssen has been appointed as special chair Limburg and Europe at FASoS. Read more about his plans to (amongst others) address the European dimensions of historical developments in today’s Limburg, here: bit.ly/2kGyFappic.twitter.com/6oXX…